Orbit the Holy Terra

Mountain Formation Fortress

A little later

Danat Lysander's 1,000-year history has indeed been a story of legendary beginnings and patterns.

When a person has already had the following experience: he was born on a pilgrimage to Terra, escaped the attacks of Greenskin and Chaos, and finally joined the warband from the Special Passage as a child of revelation, then survived the hundreds of years of subspace trek, fell to the planet of Chaos Space Marine, rescued two comrades with his bare hands, and after returning after months of internal and external scrutiny by his warband priest and think tank brothers, he was finally declared to be "pure in every cell like a newborn Imperial Fist", well, Even if he occasionally seems a little off, people are always willing to believe what he says rather than a few more months of censorship, right?

So it shouldn't be hard for me to stay here for a while, then find the right opportunity to join an expedition and then slip away after the battle and let them announce that I'm missing from the battle, right?

Generally speaking, the frequency and intensity of the expeditions with the Fist of the Empire, his plan, although very simple, is quite credible and executable.

Lysander wanted to convince himself that.

But if you have to become the leader of a Startup Clan next - it used to mean a sacred and noble commission for him full of pride and steadfastness in leading the Band, so much so that he repeatedly resigned several times, believing that his abilities and character had not yet been polished to serve it - but now it is a talisman for the "Silver Skull Warband First Chaos Champion Danat Lysander" that is more terrifying than death: in the Monks of the Band, the elders of the Terra Monastery and the Mountain Formation, When he accepted the position in front of all the Clan Commanders and the delegates from other high-ranking departments, he would definitely be under the gaze of the Emperor and surrounded by a large number of consecrations and sacred rituals.

- This would not only reveal on the spot that he had devoted himself to serving Chaos, but would even go one step further and serve the Lord of the Iron Warriors and the fall of the Praetorian Guard of Terra, and then shake the foundations of the legitimate existence of the entire Fist of the Empire, the Astarte Order—and even the Imperial Civil War-

Lysander, under the pretext that he needed to think and meditate quietly in order to clear his mind and body before the ceremony, was finally able to hide alone in the corridor of memories after receiving a lot of admiration, and now he seemed to be contemplative here in a solemn half-kneeling posture, but his mind was full of the results of the above messy and worsening deductions.

When I thought of how terrible and implicated the empire would be in the entire empire after my identity was exposed...... No, no, how ecstatic they are now to search, purge and slaughter, and maybe even return to unsuspecting fleets and warbands from expeditions, scarred and exhausted, only to be greeted only by irrefutable attacks and destruction—

Lysander became desperate again as his terrible deduced imagination developed, and then shook his head to throw the thoughts out of his mind along with the illusory distant laughter. Fortunately, there was no one else here, and the company commander had already driven everyone else, including the servants, away.

So why did you have to nominate me as the leader of this warband? You can't do it, do you?! But I really can't?! When the time comes, with the relationship between the Imperial Fists and the Holy Terra, the State Church, the Inquisition, the Forbidden Army Order and other organizations will send people to the mountain formation to watch the ceremony, it is almost ironclad, you can't even say, oh, I decided to hold it in a low-key and simple way, so we don't invite anyone, that will also be regarded as a serious provocation and hint, and it will still bring great trouble to him and the Imperial Fists family.

What hypocrisy, Danat Lessander! You've embraced steel with all your heart, but you're so pretending to worry about the safety of the stone......

I never knew I could be so much like a harlequin, and he smiled wryly in his power armor.

And if you follow the premise that "you must all come back to watch the ceremony, and all the holy relics and the venue will become temporarily sacred", then your identity will definitely be revealed...... Then the next series of terrible reasoning will be realized one by one and become a reality......

Repeated deductions have not led to any better way to break the game, and the option of self-destruction has been calculated from the beginning, but his corpse full of secrets will also reveal many facts, and at most it may be possible that the warband higher-ups will be able to keep it and his betrayal inside, and pass it on as one of the eternal dark secrets of the Fist of the Empire...... If you can't, drive the Thunderhawk and pretend it's polluted by chaos and rush into the sun......

However, the experience and content of Lysander's conversations with "that Roger Dorn" and the Iron Lord clearly made him realize that when this choice appeared, with the actual identity and status of the current "Chaos Champion Danat Lessander" within the Chaos System, it was likely that the moment he killed himself, he would be able to open a subspace crack in his neck and then jump out on the spot to cause chaos in the center of the Holy Empire......

Wait, wait, Lessander.

The former Commander of the Fist of the Empire muttered in his meditation a prayer that he had been familiar with since birth, and at first glance it sounded like he was reciting the most popular text of confession to the Emperor in the Empire......

No, no, think about it another way, Lysander.

First of all, there doesn't seem to be a second you here at the moment, so whether it's a replacement or something else, you're here as "Danat Lessander, Fist of the Empire's First Company Commander and Commander of the Battle Regiment"; Secondly, the most important point is that this time in the Imperial Fist battle group he is in, the leader of the battle group Pugh did not die, and later, according to what he learned from the side knocks, the battle of the Margor Rift here and the battle in the first half of the Thunder Expedition also happened and ended as scheduled, but there are a few details, now thinking about it one by one, it makes him have a weird, heart-pumping feeling.

1. Pugh seems to have narrowly escaped Queen Norn's killer blow to him this time, but the witnesses at the scene, the members of Pew's Terminator team are now all in a coma, and the sensor part of the power armor has been destroyed by some kind of powerful magnetic field or wave, and no one knows what happened in the last minute until they wake up, but Pew's own answer to this is very ambiguous, and Lysander feels that this feeling is familiar;

Second, according to his memory, after the end of this battle of the hive, plus the previous one, the complete loss rate of the wargroup monks in this expedition should have reached more than 25%, but this time he learned that the number of deaths was surprisingly small, and only a few brothers who were really not lucky enough died of force majeure, and there were no deaths at every turn, which was very, very, very wrong;

3. He remembered very well that the word "Hedos" on the armor plate of the ancient ship was the clue to their hunt for the culprit "Shanto, the war blacksmith of the Iron Warriors...... Because this is exactly what he used to mention when he was a captive of Chanto, and this bastard told stories in his ear all day long—

Lysander furrowed his eyebrows, and began to think about the meaning of the image of the armor plate in the message he had obtained this time: in addition to the exact "Hedos" in his memory, there was an extra line of small print that looked like it was written in bells and whistles.

"We're in big trouble, but surprise."

(End of chapter)